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Recent Graduate Student Alumni

  • Qiannan Ma, Ph.D. Student "ATGL-dependent Wnt induced lipodystrophy and fibrosis." Post-doc in the Garza Lab at John's Hopkins University
  • Xiaotian Feng, Ph.D. Student "Role of Fibronectin 1 in apical expansion of calvaria and suture patency" Post-doc in Veronique Lefebvre lab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 
  • Anna Jussila, Ph.D. Student “Wnt-DPP4 axis in dermal fibrosis and dermal adipocyte fat loss.” Post-doc at Stanford University Dermatology Dept.  in Anthony Oro’s lab 
  • Beatriz(Trizi) Ibarra, Ph.D. Student “Wnt/Beta-catenin and Erk signaling in calvarial bone cell fate regulation.” Post-doc at University of Illinois-Chicago in Ankur Saxena’s lab. 
  • Venkata Saikumar Thulabandu Ph.D. Student “Role of PRC2  in dermal fibroblast and skin development.”  Post-doc at Brigham Womens Hospital/Harvard  in Thomas Michel’s lab. 
  • James Ferguson, Ph.D. Student  “Wnt/Beta-catenin in cranial lineage selection.”, post-doc with Dr. Feldman, Stanford Dept. of Biology

Recent Undergraduate Student Alumni

  • Alex Flores, Case 2025, Medical School at Wright State Univ. 
  • Ella Segal, Case 2024, Post-bac at NIH, Ph.D. student at Univ. of Pennsylvania
  • Claire Reynolds Case 2024, CWRU Medical School
  • Miles Montegut Case 2024, applying to Medical School
  • Rachel Weitzner, Case 2023, Ph.D. student at Stanford Dermatology, Tony Oro's lab and recipient of NSF-GRFP award. 
  • Sakin Kirti, Case 2023, Ph.D. student at UCLA-Machine learning 
  • Nikaya Polsani, Case 2021, “Mechanism of calvarial bone expansion.”  Ph.D. Student at Caltech
  • Brian Zhang, Case 2021, “Wnt signaling and dermal fibrosis.” CWRU medical school

Atit Lab Alumni

  • Vidi Mendpara, Case 2021, Genotyping Queen, “Mechanotaxis in calvarial bone progenitors.” Attending Podiatry School in Independence Ohio. 
  • Michael Mohn, Case 2020, “Role of matrix dysregulation in craniosynostosis mouse models.” Enlisted in the Army and based out of Germany. 
  • Timothy Nehila, Case 2020, “Role of dermal PRC2 in epidermal differentiation.” Student at Tulane Medical School
  • Cody Machen, Case 2020, “Role of Erk signaling in calvarial bone lineage selection.” Post-bac program planning the next move
  • Gregg DiNuoscio, Research Assistant, Lab manage at Baldwin Wallace College, Berea Ohio
  • Nikhil Mallipeddi, Case 2017, “Wnt responsive RNAs in development and disease.”  Consultant with McKenzie. 
  • Mahima Devarajan, Case 2017, “Wnt signaling and lineage decisions.” M.D./Ph.D. student at University of Minnesota
  • Miarassa Steele, Case 2016, “Beta-catenin and dermal fibrosis, currently a Research Assistant with Case Cystic fibrosis core. 
  • Nathaniel Mullin, Case 2016, “RNAs and fibrosis.” M.D./Ph.D. student at University of Iowa
  • Emily Hamburg, Ph.D. is in OB/GYN Fellowship in Fetal medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland
  • Henry Goodnough, M.D./Ph.D. is in Orthopedic Surgery Residency at Stanford.
  • Isadore Budnick is in Medical School at Tulane Univ.
  • Demeng Chen, Ph.D. is a new Investigator in China
  • Peggy Myung, MD/PhD is an Assistant professor at Yale University, Dept. of Dermatology
  • Andrew Jarrell, MBA is at the Case Technology Transfer Office.
  • Thu Tran, Ph.D. finished her post-doc at University of Virginia in Adrian Halmes’s lab.
  • Canting Guo, Case 2010 is in medical school at University of Buffalo.
  • Daniel Geisler, Case ’10 plans to attend medical school in 2011 and is currently in the Masters of Anatomy program at Case.
  • Chad Treloar, Case ’10 plans to attend business school in international relations in 2011.
  • Pooja Sandesara, Case ’09, won the excellence in Biology Research award and is working at University of Florida, Gainesville.
  • Adrie Welsh, Case ’09, was the first student to graduate with Honors in Biology from the Atit lab and got the Excellence in Biology award. She will attend medical school at Case in Fall 2009.
  • Diana Zuzindlak, Research Associate plans to study for her medical boards and become a practicing physician in the US
  • Preethi Mani, Case ’08, Runner up for the first prize in the SOURCE poster competition at Case, started in the research intensive medical school program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Fall 2008.
  • John Myers, Research Assistant 2005-2007, plans to enter MFA programs in Poetry
  • Jennifer Ohtola, Case ’07, First Place Michelson Moreley 2007 Competition, She is in the M.D. or M.D./Ph.D. program at University of Toledo.
  • Ozimba Anyangawe, Bridges Program at Cayahoga Community College ’06, First place FASEB-MARC Poster competition, plans to do business administration.
  • Batool Zaidi, Case ’07, started in the Ph.D. program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and is doing her thesis work in Dr. Peter Scacheri’s lab in Case Genetics. Currently the owner of Grantshark consulting firm
  • Karen Yeh, Case ’06, Started at Case Western Reserve Univ. Medical School in Fall 2006.
  • Paul Joudrey, Case ’05, Finishing up in the Teach for America Program in Brooklyn, NY. He will be attending Medical School starting in Fall 2007.